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https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/faith-in-the-wilderness-of-waiting   Faith in the Wilderness of Waiting Article by  Scott Hubbard Editor, desiringGod.org Subscribe Apple Spotify Twenty-five years. Three hundred months. One thousand three hundred weeks. Nine thousand one hundred twenty-five days. That’s how long Abraham waited between hearing God’s promise and holding his son ( Genesis 12:4 ;  21:5 ). We can read Genesis 12–21 in one sitting. Abraham and Sarah lived it day by day, nine thousand mornings and more. Three times we’re told God appeared to Abraham to reaffirm his word ( Genesis 15:5 ;  17:16 ;  18:10 ). Otherwise, he and Sarah carried the past promise in a land of present silence, waiting with open hands and an empty womb. Abraham, “the father of us all” ( Romans 4:16 ), was a waiting man; his faith, a waiting faith. As his seventies turned to eighties turned to nineties, he waited. As he moved through Haran to Canaan to Egypt and back,...